Friday, February 24, 2012

DENNIS WHEATLEY (GREATEST HORROR FICTION; )

Dennis Yates Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was an English author. His prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Works

The Duke De Richleau series:
The Forbidden Territory (January 1933) - filmed in 1934
The Devil Rides Out (December 1934) - filmed in 1968
The Golden Spaniard (August 1938)
Three Inquisitive People (February 1940)
Strange Conflict (April 1941)
Codeword - Golden Fleece (May 1946)
The Second Seal (November 1950)
The Prisoner in the Mask (September 1957)
Vendetta in Spain (August 1961)
Dangerous Inheritance (August 1965)
Gateway to Hell (August 1970)
The Gregory Sallust series:
Black August (January 1934)
Contraband (October 1936)
The Scarlet Impostor (January 1940)
Faked Passports (June 1940)
The Black Baroness (October 1940)
V for Vengeance (March 1942)
Come into My Parlour (November 1946)
The Island Where Time Stands Still (September 1954)
Traitors' Gate (September 1958)
They Used Dark Forces (October 1964)
The White Witch of the South Seas (August 1968)
The Julian Day series:
The Quest of Julian Day (January 1939)
The Sword of Fate (September 1941)
Bill for the Use of a Body (April 1964)
The Roger Brook series:
The Launching of Roger Brook (July 1947)
The Shadow of Tyburn Tree (May 1948)
The Rising Storm (October 1949)
The Man Who Killed the King (November 1951)
The Dark Secret of Josephine (March 1955)
The Rape of Venice (October 1959)
The Sultan's Daughter (August 1963)
The Wanton Princess (August 1966)
Evil in a Mask (August 1969)
The Ravishing of Lady Mary Ware (August 1971)
The Irish Witch (August 1973)
Desperate Measures (September 1974)
The Molly Fountain mini-series:
To the Devil - a Daughter (January 1953) - filmed in 1976
The Satanist (August 1960)
"Lost World" novels:
They Found Atlantis [Camilla and others] (January 1936)
Uncharted Seas [Various] (January 1938) - filmed in 1968 as The Lost Continent)
The Man Who Missed the War [Philip Vaudell] (November 1945)
Other Science Fiction novels:
Sixty Days to Live [Lavinia Leigh and others] (August 1939)
Star of Ill-Omen [Kem Lincoln] (May 1952)
Other Adventure/Espionage novels:
Such Power is Dangerous [Avril Bamborough] (June 1933)
The Fabulous Valley [The Heirs of John Thomas Long] (August 1934)
The Eunuch of Stamboul [Swithin Destime] (July 1935) - filmed in 1936 as Secret of Stamboul
The Secret War [Sir Anthony Lovelace, Christopher Pen, Valerie Lorne] (January 1937)
Curtain of Fear [Nicholas Novák] (October 1953)
Mayhem in Greece [Robbie Green] (August 1962)
The Strange Story of Linda Lee [Linda Lee] (August 1972)
Other Occult novels:
The Haunting of Toby Jugg [Toby Jugg] (December 1948) - filmed in 2006 as The Haunted Airman
The Ka of Gifford Hillary [Gifford Hillary] (July 1956)
Unholy Crusade ['Lucky' Adam Gordon] (August 1967)
Short Story collections:
Mediterranean Nights (October 1942, revised 1963)
Gunmen, Gallants and Ghosts (June 1943, revised 1963)
Historical Non-Fiction:
Old Rowley: A Private Life of Charles II (September 1933)
Red Eagle: The Story of the Russian Revolution and of Klementy Efremovitch Voroshilov, Marshal and Commissar for Defence of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (October 1937)
Reference:
The Devil and all his Works (September 1971)
War Papers and Autobiographical:
Total War (December 1941)
Stranger than Fiction (February 1959)
Saturdays with Bricks: And Other Days Under Shell-Fire (March 1961)
The Time Has Come ... : The Memoirs of Dennis Wheatley: The Young Man Said 1897-1914 (1977)
The Time Has Come ... : The Memoirs of Dennis Wheatley: Officer and Temporary Gentleman 1914-1919 (1978)
The Time Has Come ... : The Memoirs of Dennis Wheatley: Drink and Ink 1919-1977 (1979)
The Deception Planners: My Secret War (August 1980)
Private Printings:
The Seven Ages of Justerini's (1749-1949) (1949)
Of Vice and Virtue (1950)
The Eight Ages of Justerini's (1749-1965) (1965)
The Nine Ages of Justerini's: A Celebration of 250 Years (1998)
Crime Dossiers (with J.G. Links):
Murder off Miami (July 1936)
Who Killed Robert Prentice? (June 1937)
The Malinsay Massacre (April 1938)
Herewith the Clues! (July 1939)
Board Games:
Invasion (1938)
Blockade (1939)
Alibi (1953)

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